Ruling Race

A History of American Slaveholders

AvJames Oakes

Häftad, Engelska, 1998

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Beskrivning

This pathbreaking social history of the slaveholding South marks a turn in our understanding of antebellum America and the coming of the Civil War. Oakes's bracing analysis breaks the myth that slaveholders were a paternalistic aristocracy dedicated to the values of honor, race, and section. Instead they emerge as having much in common with their entrepreneurial counterparts in the North: they were committed to free-market commercialism and political democracy for white males. The Civil War was not an inevitable conflict between civilizations on different paths but the crack-up of a single system, the result of people and events.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum:1998-01-17
Mått:140 x 211 x 23 mm
Vikt:415 g
Format:Häftad
Språk:Engelska
Antal sidor:334
Förlag:WW Norton & Co
ISBN:9780393317053

Utforska kategorier

Amerikas historia inom Historia och arkeologi
Slaveri inom Historia och arkeologi

Mer om författaren

James Oakes is one of our foremost Civil War historians and a two-time winner of the Lincoln Prize for his works on the politics of abolition. He teaches at the Graduate Center of the City University of New York.